How do you make crypto fraud understandable for everyone? Dr Andrea Leiter @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social has been awarded an Amsterdam University Fund grant for her project 'Cryptologist: Making Blockchain Legible', researching the emerging field of crypto forensics. 👏 @uvalawschool.bsky.social

I'll be speaking on revolution and #Polycritical Law @lselaw.bsky.social w many incredible folk incl Ingo Venzke, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social, Andrew Lang, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social, Mike Wilkinson, @ohailes.bsky.social, Sofia Stolk, Lea Ypi many others! #Polycrisis lselaw.events/event/polycr...

🎤 Listen now to #DigitalEchoes Season 2 / Episode 4! @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social speaks with Laura Lotti — a researcher, analyst, and writer with 10 years of experience investigating digital assets, networked organizations and regenerative technocultures. voelkerrechtsblog.org/4th-episode-...

In this OA article in the Leiden Journal of Int’l Law, I argue that the distinctive logic of consular internationalism can aid analysis of entanglements of imperial & commercial power & grappling with unofficial actors’ role in shaping international law www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

Hey folks, the excellent international law and politics Collaborative Research Network is now on Bluesky if you want to follow: @intllawpoliticscrn.bsky.social

Cornell Ph.D. student Momodou Taal sued the Trump administration to challenge its broad executive orders targeting pro-Palestinian students, fearing that he "was going to be a target eventually." Then he was ordered to turn himself in to ICE for possible deportation.

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

What are the historical, institutional & legal-jurisprudential conditions for the effectiveness of human rights regimes in non-democratic contexts? Hear more about this @erc.europa.eu research project led by Dr Dilek Kurban, 7 April, 15:30cet. @uvalawschool.bsky.social acil.uva.nl/content/even...

During a workshop on 30-31 January, we critically examined #digitalsovereignty through a #feminist lens. Our collective writing exercise resulted in a blog post just published on Critical Legal Thinking. It is available via the link below! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/18/t...

Dr Machiko Kanetake has been appointed as the new academic director and chair of the executive board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, starting 1 July 2025. Her leadership, together with the managing director Kasper Vrolijk, will be instrumental in shaping the future of the Institute. 🔗 bit.ly/43ydJp1

bsky.app/profile/mino... Finally getting published- our episode is scheduled for 5 May - Laura on 27 April I’m really glad we did this. All the little pieces.

All about the new and old song on ‘law & code’ - great conversations delivered every other Monday- stay tuned! Thanks to all the nice, really very nice people involved in this and the generous support of @acil-uva.bsky.social 💙

The irony of Columbia being the first target after being at the vanguard against its own students and faculty exercising their right of free speech. Shafik’s unnecessary and preemptive appeasement totally backfiring

#Mannheim Täter ist ein Deutscher ohne Migrationshintergrund, vorbestraft wegen rechter Hetze. Vorname: Andreas Aufgehalten und für die Verhaftung des Täters gesorgt hat ein Taxifahrer aus Pakistan. Vorname: Afzal Reaktion der AfD:

“We’re witnessing a global backlash against women’s progress […]. Trumpism and rightwing populism isn’t a revolt against the ‘elites’; it’s a reaction to men being de-centred and a backlash against feminism.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Memecoin madness www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/w...

📢Vacancies: Two postdoc positions and a PhD researcher. Working with Dilek Kurban @uvalawschool.bsky.social on her project, ‘Beyond Compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes’. Apply before 9 March. acil.uva.nl/content/news...

They’re really trying to destroy everything with no plan what comes next. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/republi...

Neoliberalism’s foundation isn’t pure rationality but unspoken desires, power, and domination. Our essay of the week examines how the Market thrives on chaos and destruction while masquerading as a virtuous necessity. By @medinamora.bsky.social in @parapraxismag.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hNNPBN

Must-read for anyone considering attending ESIL this year at FU Berlin👇 "International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"

verfassungsblog.de/where-is-our... “Francesca Albanese is our colleague. The holder of a mandate by the Human Rights Council. […] Never before has UN Special Rapporteur Albanese been disinvited from a university.” Where is our outcry? @isafei.bsky.social

Universities under pressure: German civil society organizations and @wiko-berlin.bsky.social speak up against political pressure, cancellations and (self-)censorship. www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...

Can we build a better world than the one we have? What does the critique of neoliberalism tell us about where we might go next? @gregggonsalves.bsky.social and I have thoughts, just out in @daedalus.bsky.social: www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...

🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading. 👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays. t.co/bd0DOcbXKp

BOOK OUT NOW: Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future Inte Gloerich in conversation with E. Bordeleau, R.Catlow, A. Launay, Y. Khalili, P. Rafferty, and S. Troncoso tinyurl.com/ajnmh4f

Finally joining this party on Bluesky!